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Dang, theres too much inconsistency with your moderation. You didn't seem to want to limit such flamebait from false statements from GP's comment. It is unfortu

Dang, theres too much inconsistency with your moderation. You didn't seem to want to limit such flamebait from false statements from GP's comment. It is unfortunate factual statements are not allowed on here. Allowing one side to flame away is not the process to reach curious conversations. Good luck with that.

dang 5y ago
Sides always feel like we take the other side [1]. That's the way this goes. For lots of examples see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26148870 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26148870. > It is unfortunate factual statements are not allowed on here People use the words 'facts' and 'factual' a bit magically in internet arguments. There are infinitely many facts [2]. They don't select themselves; people do that. When they do it as part of curious conversation, great; when they do it as part of flamewar, well, the 'flamewar' part is the high-order bit. We're trying to avoid that here. In the GP case, a barrage of links about everything from Vietnam to Ukraine to Robert Kagan is not curious conversation—it's boilerplate, as I said, meaning it reads like pre-existing material designed to be copy-pasted into ideological arguments. Even if all that is "facts" and all 100% correct on all the underlying issues, doing that is still boring and not what HN is for. How would you enjoy a conversation where someone insisted on reading all that stuff out to you? [1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=%22always%20feels%22%20mods%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... [2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20infinitely%20many%20facts&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

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Dang, theres too much inconsistency with your moderation. You didn't seem to want to limit such flamebait from false statements from GP's comment. It is unfortu

by corporateshil1 5y ago

dang 5y ago
Sides always feel like we take the other side [1]. That's the way this goes. For lots of examples see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26148870 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26148870. > It is unfortunate factual statements are not allowed on here People use the words 'facts' and 'factual' a bit magically in internet arguments. There are infinitely many facts [2]. They don't select themselves; people do that. When they do it as part of curious conversation, great; when they do it as part of flamewar, well, the 'flamewar' part is the high-order bit. We're trying to avoid that here. In the GP case, a barrage of links about everything from Vietnam to Ukraine to Robert Kagan is not curious conversation—it's boilerplate, as I said, meaning it reads like pre-existing material designed to be copy-pasted into ideological arguments. Even if all that is "facts" and all 100% correct on all the underlying issues, doing that is still boring and not what HN is for. How would you enjoy a conversation where someone insisted on reading all that stuff out to you? [1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=%22always%20feels%22%20mods%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... [2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20infinitely%20many%20facts&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...